New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1967). Adams, Ansel. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio size, 192 pp., inscribed to the Livermore Radiation Laboratry Fire Department by Elmer Kelly. A pictorial history of the first one hundred years of the University of California, Berkeley, renowned for the photography by Ansel Adams.This copy inscribed... More

[San Francisco]: Privately Printed by Cecil and James Johnson, The Windsor Press, 1930. Adams, Ansel. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 31 of 60, quarto size, 27 pp., frontis signed by Ansel Adams, inscribed by David Anderson. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is best known for his works of fiction such as "Treasure... More

[New York]: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux], (1976). Avedon, Richard. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto size, unpaginated, inscribed by Richard Avedon. Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was a prominent photographer in the field of fashion, and one of the leading photographers for "Vogue" magazine during the 1970s and 1980s; his portraits of numerous writers... More

Boston: Engraved and printed by R.A. Supply Co. for Boston and Maine Railroad, [1898-1900]. Wraps. Oblong octavo size, five volumes, illustrated. An early photographic account of New England, each volume has a one-page introduction and 30+ black and white plates. Of especial interest to any of us who have lived... More

Llandogo, Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press, 2012. Pusch, Steffi. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 5 of 100, folio size, [40] pp., signed by S.J. Butler and Steffi Pusch. "The Swimmer" first appeared in "The Warwick Review" and was then selected for "The Best British Short Stories 2011" published by Salt; this... More

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1974). Picasso, Pablo. Hardcover. Folio size, 300 pp., signed by David Douglas Duncan. Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet, is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century; his vision led him to deconstruct the conventions of perspective that... More

Springfield, Mass. Patriot Publishing Co., 1912. Brady, Matthew. First Edition. Wraps. Sixteen parts, quarto size, approx. [32] pp. each. A complete run of this series with "photographs just discovered taken 50 years ago", illustrated with Matthew Brady's War-time photographs, and many other war photographers from both the North and South... More

Wien und Leipzig: A. Hartleben's, 1910. Hardcover. Quarto size, 944 pp., text in German. A 100-year old technical book on photography, with 35 photographic and steel-engraved plates (Tefel), many of which fold out.The author, Georg Heinrich Emmerich (1870-1923), was the founder of the first School of Photography and the first... More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1995. Franck, Martine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 145 of 300 copies, elephant folio size, [32] pp., signed by Martine Franck, with LEC Monthly Letter. Jean Giono (1895-1970) was a French novelist whose work was focused on exalting nature and the common man. A prolific... More

Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, (1955). Roiter, Fulvio. Softcover. One of 10,000 copies, quarto size, 130 pp., in French. Fulvio Roiter (1926-2016) was an Italian photographer; beginning as a chemist, he committed himself to photography in 1947, documenting various cities in stunning series of black-and-white photographs. During his career, Roiter... More

[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, [1986]. Ballagh, Robert. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 1000, quarto size, 307 pp., signed by Robert Ballagh and Thomas Flanagan, with LEC Monthly Letter. Although James Joyce's (1882-1941) works were often met with resistance when they first appeared in print (most famously in... More

London: Phaidon, 2017. Leibovitz, Annie. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio size, 314 pp., inscribed by Annie Leibovitz. A book of high-quality colour photographs by American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz, this being a chronicle of her work in digital photography. This edition includes some work that predates 2005, but had not been... More

New York: Aperture, (1985). Mark, Mary Ellen. Soft cover. Quarto size, 92 pp. "Streetwise" is an in-depth and personal look into the lives of teenagers surviving on the streets of Seattle, working as prostitutes, drug dealers, pimps, and panhandlers. The book began as an article for "Life" magazine, written by... More

San Francisco: Associated Students, Sonora Union High School / John Henry Nash, Printer, 1937. Hardcover. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 80 p. High School yearbook for Sonora, California - printed by John Henry Nash, famous early San Francisco printer and with photographs taken by the equally famous photographer... More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the shop of Patrick Reagh], 2012. Reagh, William. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 350 copies, quarto size (oblong), 138 pp., with prospectus. Photographer William Reagh (1911-1992) was fascinated by the city of Los Angeles, and his photographs of the city document... More

[New York]: The Limited Editions Club [Printed at the Wild Carrot Letterpress], (1986). Mapplethorpe, Robert. Limited Edition. Leather. Number 351 of 1000, quarto size, 98 pp., signed by Paul Schmidt and Robert Mapplethorpe, with monthly LEC Letter. Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) started life as a poet but stopped writing after a.... More

New York: The Viking Press, 1966. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Quarto size, 207 pp. This was the last of Steinbeck's books published during his lifetime, the text is illustrated by Ansel Adams, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Art Shay, Gordon Parks, and many others; it is a homage to the... More

[New York]: The Limited Editions Club, (1990). Siskind, Aaron. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Number 351 of 550 copies, elephant folio size, [52] pp., signed by Aaron Siskind, with original prospectus. In 1855 the first issue of "Leaves of Grass" was published at the expense of the author Walt Whitman (1819-1892) in... More